Katherine Caughey – Embracing the Message - Spring 2008 Issue of Horses in Art Magazine

Katherine Caughey – Embracing the Message

by Staff Writer

Morning Run – Acrylic on Canvas, 18 x 24, by Katherine Caughey.
Can you imagine rising every morning to a two-foot by three-foot painting of horses running for the freedom we all seek? Hopefully it would remind you to go get’em that day and every day,” states artist Katherine Caughey. In the world of western and wildlife art, Caughey’s impressionism is refreshingly unexpected. Like the impressionists of Europe in the late 1800s to early 1900s, the whole goal in her art is to convey a feeling, evoke emotion and in a sublime way suggest her personal beliefs.

Katherine Caughey is a signature member of Women Artists of the West and Art Commissioner for the city of Desmoines, Washington. She has illustrated for authors of publications as well as for books on historical research. She also sculpts using paper, terra-cotta and bronze. Her paintings are mainly acrylic.

Caughey comments, “My paintings deliver a message of hope, thoughts and feelings. I became a metaphoric painter some time ago. Ride the Wind, a painting of freedom and success in one’s own life, was very important to me. I have been painfully shy with my work. I’ve always strived to be as good as others, not realizing that it is my own ways and messages that everyone likes.”

Ride the Wind – Acrylic, 24 x 36, by Katherine Caughey.

“So I started to give that positive feeling back through my painting and sculpture,” she continues. “I love to pass it on, so to speak, and speaking to one’s own success is that most common need in humans.”

“Walk of Courage was a statement of peace. There are horses involved in this composition, and the reason is they are all members of the same species, just like people. This is a poem I wrote to explain this painting: “If we could appreciate what is the same with each of us, We could celebrate what is different, But that would take a walk of courage.”

Caughey’s paintings have a spiritual quality about them. She says she sees the painting in her thoughts and then puts it to canvas. Her sculptures form themselves; she is but their tool.

Katherine Caughey lives in Seattle, Washington. Visit her web site at www.kcgallery.net.

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